Most people in the know
regard Professor Joseph Banks Rhine as the granddaddy of
Parapsychology. Way back in the 1930's at Duke University, along
with associate Dr. Karl Zener, the pair were amongst he first to seek
evidence of Extra Sensory Perception using the 'scientific method'.

The method revolved
around the use of Zener cards, or ESP cards as they are more commonly
known. There are a total of 25 cards each bearing one of the five
symbols, repeated five times. The cards would be mixed and then 'the
sender' would select the cards one at a time. In turn 'The receiver'
would attempt to name the card said person was thinking of.

What makes this so
interesting is that because there are only five to choose from the
chances of guessing correctly are one in five or 25%. But the tests show
that, against probability the participants were able to achieve a
much higher score. 1850 trials were taken.
Probability would expect a 20% sucess rate, or 370 hits. The total
number of successes actually scored for the series is 558,
which is better than 30%

Many people in the
scientific community doubted the results of J.B Rhine's E.S.P test
citing flaws in the experiment, cheating or bias as reason for
inaccuracy. To their amazement though when the tests have been
reproduced by sceptics of E.S.P, such as the famous Richard Wiseman
the results have been similar.

I've said it before and I will say it again: By the standards applied to any other science ESP has been proven to exist.